Helping Out New Tropes: The Thread

Ever Launched a trope, get tons of hats and a good initial push, but it ends up being buried in an avalanche of even newer tropes?

This thread is an experimental, purely community driven solution to the New Trope Problem, AKA the lack of visibility after the initial push.

Simply follow the format and hopefully a fellow troper will check out the page and add examples or wicks on trope pages!

Requirements for asking for help:

• It has to be a Launched Trope, tropes still in TLP are not allowed.
• It has to be less than one year old.
  • Exceptions can be made for really unused tropes (15 Wicks or less)
• Has less than 50 Wicks.
• You don't have to be the Trope's Sponsor to post it in the thread, it just has to meet the above requirements.
• A trope can only be posted once a week. Don't spam, obviously.

Format:

• Trope Name
• Date Launched (Optional)
• Short Description
• Wicks Amount (at the time of posting the request)
• What kind of help you expect to get (Examples, wicks in work pages, etc.)

Rules could always change in the future.

So get to it and start posting/helping!

Why not?

• Trope Name:
  • The Journey Through Death

• Date Launched:
  • The 24th of September, 2020, I think.

• Short Description:
  • A character who has died finds themselves in another place, a land through which they must journey in order to fully pass on.

• Wicks:
  • 24

• The kind of help that I'm requesting:
  • Examples and associated cross-wicking are likely the most important things right now, I think.

My Games & Writing

• Trope Name:
  • Crossover-Exclusive Villain
• Date Launched
  • Nov. 29th 2020
• Description:
  • An Original Generation Big Bad that appears in a Crossover work.
• Wicks: 9
• Help Needed:
  • Need more Wicks and examples, but primarily wicks. Some help cross-wicking the already placed examples would be appreciated.

Edited by Makir on Dec 19th 2020 at 1:29:31 PM

• Trope Name: Tongue Suicide
• Date Launched: 23 October 2020
• Short Description: A character tries to kill themselves (or threatens to kill themselves) by biting off their own tongue.
• Wicks Amount: 15
• What kind of help you expect to get: More examples and wicks. We can probably find a couple in the tropes I linked, as there can be some overlap.

• Trope Name: Video Game Randomizer
• Short Description: A mode (usually but not always a Game Mod) which shuffles around important features of the game to offer more Replay Value.
• Wicks: 8
• What kind of help you expect to get: Right now the thing we're lost on is, how do we crosswick examples of game mods without their own page? Do we just... not?

... Also kinda feel bad that we displaced Pet Positive Identification after just two hours. We weren't even paying attention to other launches <.<

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Dec 27th 2020 at 10:25:49 AM

Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.

• Trope Name:
  • Throne Room Throwdown
• Date Launched
  • Dec. 15th 2020
• Description:
  • A throne room is used as a setpiece in a climactic confrontation.
• Wicks: 19
• Help Needed:
  • More examples, please.

Bringing this thread back

• Trope Name:
  • Crown of Power
• Description:
  • A crown-shaped item or artifact that grants power to those who wear it.
• Date of Release: Jan. 13 2021
• Wicks: 4
• Help Needed: Help with crosswicking the already existing examples.

Which Harry Potter book is this?

• Crown of Power: The diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw is charmed to give increased intelligence to anyone who wears it; however, it is never used for this purpose in the books.

EDIT: All examples except the above and some of the Dungeons & Dragons ones are now crosswicked. I also added an example of my own.

Edited by LaundryPizza03 on Jan 13th 2021 at 12:48:02 PM

I'm back!

It was mentioned in The Deathly Hallows, where Helena Ravenclaw mentions stealing the diadem in hopes that it would make her wiser.

Edited by Adept on Jan 14th 2021 at 9:02:35 PM

I'm a bit late to this, but my thoughts:

I would suggest cross-wicking the example on the game's page—or perhaps on a trivia sub-page for the game; I'm not sure.

My Games & Writing

I was thinking that you could simply write a page for the mod.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Game mods can also be listed on a Fan Works subpage for the game. In that case the wick would go to that subpage. It's not necessary for every mod to have its own work article since I'd imagine that most of them lack the necessary trope examples to qualify.

• The Porker mod for Team Fortress 2 causes all the guns to make oinking noises.

Umm, great. That's not TV Tropes article worthy by itself.

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